Nehemiah 2:14 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Nehemiah 2:14

12 Then I arose in the night, I and a few men with me; I told no one what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem; nor was there any animal with me, except the one on which I rode.

13 And I went out by night ^athrough the Valley Gate to the Serpent Well and the¹ Refuse Gate, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem which were ^bbroken down and its gates which were burned with fire.

14 Then I went on to the ^aFountain Gate and to the ^bKing’s Pool, but there was no room for the animal under me to pass.

15 So I went up in the night by the ^avalley, and viewed the wall; then I turned back and entered by the Valley Gate, and so returned.

16 And the officials did not know where I had gone or what I had done; I had not yet told the Jews, the priests, the nobles, the officials, or the others who did the work.

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Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Nehemiah 2:14

Then—that is, after having passed through the gate of the Essenes.

I went on to the gate of the fountain—that is, Siloah, from which turning round the fount of Ophel.

to the king's pool: but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass—that is, by the sides of this pool (Solomon's) there being water in the pool, and too much rubbish about it to permit the passage of the beast.

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I went out by night by the gate of the valley—that is, the Jaffa gate, near the tower of Hippicus.

even before the dragon well—that is, fountain on the opposite side of the valley.

and to the dung port—the gate on the east of the city, through which there ran a common sewer to the brook Kedron and the valley of Hinnom.

Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Nehemiah 2:14:

Nehemiah 2:11-12
Ecclesiastes 2:6
Isaiah 7:3
Jeremiah 17:19-27

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